. Cotton and cotton manufacture . VIII The Bale The Bale-Breaker Making Cotton Yarn Almost all cotton comes to the mill in standard compress bales offive hundred pounds gross. The cotton is condensed to about 35 poundsper cubic foot at the compress, wrapped in coarse jute bagging, andcircled with iron hoops. (See figure 3.) For some time there hasbeen a movement to improve the so-called square bale, or to replaceit with a different form of packing. Sea Island cotton is frequentlypacked in a smaller round bale, and there is much to be said for thispractice. What we are concerned with here, howe
. Cotton and cotton manufacture . VIII The Bale The Bale-Breaker Making Cotton Yarn Almost all cotton comes to the mill in standard compress bales offive hundred pounds gross. The cotton is condensed to about 35 poundsper cubic foot at the compress, wrapped in coarse jute bagging, andcircled with iron hoops. (See figure 3.) For some time there hasbeen a movement to improve the so-called square bale, or to replaceit with a different form of packing. Sea Island cotton is frequentlypacked in a smaller round bale, and there is much to be said for thispractice. What we are concerned with here, however, is that the millreceives the cotton in a compressed form which must be loosened be-fore anything can be done with it. Accordingly, the first thing that happens is that the hoops are cut, thebagging removed, and the cotton thrown by hand into the feed-apronof the bale-breaker. This machine does nothing more than to pick thecompressed cotton apart and deliver it in tufts about the size of a hand-full on a belt conveyor. (18 1. Bale Breakers. The travelling belt or feeder delivers these bunches of cotton intomachines called Openers, which simply repeat the operation of the bale- jhg Openerbreaker on a more thorough scale, reducing the large tufts into manysmaller ones. These small pieces are dropped into an air chute anddrawn along parallel rods up to the picker room. During transit inthe trunk much of the heavier dirt falls between the rods and is re-moved In the most recent installations larger bale-breakers are used whichreduce the cotton to small tufts and deliver through an air pipe to acondenser in the picker-room. The condenser either empties into binsor else on to the automatic feed of the breaker-pickers. 19
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